this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
1754 points (94.3% liked)

Memes

45730 readers
788 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait why? They're literally in the Orient

[โ€“] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 year ago

We don't call it that anymore. Haven't for decades.

As for the why, the time when that term was in regular use was a time with a lot of anti-asian bigotry and most of the people who refuse to stop using it are the same ones who use other outdated terms/slurs for non-white and non-western people, so it has tons of negative connotations..